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Year: 1986 (59th) Academy Awards
Category: Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Film Title: A Room with a View
Winner: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala (not present; accepted by director James Ivory)
Presenter: Shirley MacLaine
Date & Venue: March 30, 1987; Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
JAMES IVORY:
Well my words certainly will not be as good as hers, I can tell you that. There's an idea that Ruth Jhabvala is very shy, a sort of recluse. But I can tell you that if she was here tonight and not absolutely one-half way around the world, she'd be up here in a flash to get this award. She's, I think, a bit too self-effacing to want me to deliver a sermon on the importance of a writer's contribution to films, but I think she'd allow me to say as a director that the best acting, the most brilliant photography, and the most wonderful sets and costumes add up to absolutely nothing, as we all know, without a good script. And I also want to say that I thank her for this one. Finally, I know she'd want me to salute E. M. Forster for her, for his ideas and his words. Thank you very much.
© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
[Note: All winners are present except where noted; NOT all winners may have spoken.]
